Bekloppte Amis

[Andrée]

Heute habe ich folgende tolle Gerichtsurteile aus den USA gefunden. Toll finde ich den Einbrecher und natürlich Mrs. Grazinski.
7TH PLACE:

Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.


6TH PLACE:

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord.
Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps..


5TH PLACE :

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish.. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.


4TH PLACE :

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.


3RD PLACE:

Third place goes to Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 3 0 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?


2ND PLACE:

Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses.


1ST PLACE :

This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich.. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs.. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set.. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs.. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

[jannie]

Moin,
was ich viel erstaunlicher finde, ist die Tatsache, das in den USA immer fein in der Zeitung steht, wer denn für welche Dinge verknackt worden ist. In den grossen Orten sortiert nach Rubriken. Da weisst Du immer ganz genau, was Dein Nachbar so angestellt hat.
gruesse
Hanse

[derausdemnorden]

Zitat von jannie

Moin,
was ich viel erstaunlicher finde, ist die Tatsache, das in den USA immer fein in der Zeitung steht, wer denn für welche Dinge verknackt worden ist. In den grossen Orten sortiert nach Rubriken. Da weisst Du immer ganz genau, was Dein Nachbar so angestellt hat.
gruesse
Hanse

So gehört sich das auch.
Leider ist das nicht mit Deutschen Gesetzen möglich.

[TageDieb]

Was ICH viel erstaunlicher finde, ist die andauernde Arroganz gegenüber den Amerikanern.

Gruß
Mario

[Chaabo]

Zitat von TageDieb

Was ICH viel erstaunlicher finde, ist die andauernde Arroganz gegenüber den Amerikanern.

Gruß
Mario

Zumal sämtliche der oben aufgeführten "Fälle" komplett frei erfunden sind.

http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp

[Flybridge]

Zitat von Chaabo

Zumal sämtliche der oben aufgeführten "Fälle" komplett frei erfunden sind.

http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp

Und selsbt wenn ich nicht so ist, sind die Urteile nicht rechtskräftig und werden im nachhinein durch die nächste Instanz wieder gerade gebogen.

Das angelsächsische Rechtssystem (Common Law/Case Law) beruht im Gegensatz zu unserem kontinentaleuropäischen Rechtssystem (Code Law) nicht auf Gesetze, sondern bildet sich durch die Rechtssprechung der Gerichte. Deshalb lernen in den USA/UK die angehenden Juristen in erster Linie nicht die Gesetze, sondern Urteile, anhand derer sie sich eine Rechtsmeinung bilden können. Aus diesem Grunde haben die Richter auch freihe Hand (Interpretationsspielraum) bei Rechtssprechung.

[Skorpio]

Zitat von TageDieb

Was ICH viel erstaunlicher finde, ist die andauernde Arroganz gegenüber den Amerikanern.
Gruß
Mario

Viel erstaunlicher finde ich die Arroganz der Amis gegenüber
der WELT